The farmers’ knowledge of the techniques of the sustainable agriculture in Assuit governorate, Egypt

This research aimed to identify the level of knowledge of the respondents farmers concerning with sustainable agriculture techniques in Assiut governorate, the obstacles facing them while using sustainable agriculture techniques, and their proposals to overcome these obstacles and to know the relationship between the level of knowledge farmers concerning with sustainable agriculture techniques and their independent studied variables. This research has been carried out in Assiut governorate; two districts were randomly selected from the governorate. These are Assiut and Aboitig A village was randomly selected from each district, respectively, Mankabad and Masoudi. The sample was randomly selected from the villages of the study with10% of the total number of farmers in each village. The sample was as follows: 124 respondent farmers in the village of Mankabad in Assiut district. The total number of farmers in this village is 1242 farmers and 85 respondents in the village of Masaoudi in Aboitig district. The total number of village farmers is 850 farmers, and the data were collected by personal interview using a questionnaire prepared specifically for this purpose during the month of July and August 2017. Data were analyzed and shown using illustrating tables, frequencies, analysis, that was done through using a percentages, and chi-square test package of statistical programs of social sciences (SPSS).